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English School, American Style: Testing the Preservation-seeking Quality of the International Society

Haverford College, USA

This article addresses criticism that the English School fails to test empirically the validity of its main claims. The article takes a neglected yet highly significant aspect of the international society, its preservation-seeking quality, and tests it. It hypothesizes that if the international society truly exists and is inclined to act in order to guarantee its survival, its members should respond to threats to the existence of the society with rigorous collective action atypical of `normal politics'. To validate the hypothesis, the article examines the way in which members of the international society have responded to the systemic threat posed by the al Qaeda-led jihadi movement, focusing on the regime to suppress the financing of terrorism. Subsequently, the article lauds the theoretical contribution of the English School to understanding systemic threats, as well as its unique exposition of the war on terrorism.

Key Words: al Qaeda • English School • hegemony • international cooperation • methodology • terrorism financing

European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 15, No. 2, 291-318 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1354066109103140


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